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Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism: Five Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion

Slavoj Žižek

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Description:Totalitarianism has always had a precise strategic function: to guarantee the liberal-democratic hegemony by dismissing the Leftist critique of liberal democracy as the two-faced twin of Right-wing dictatorships. instead of providing yet another systematic exposition of the history of this notion, Žižek looks at totalitarianism in a way that Wittgenstein would approve of—finding it a cobweb of family resemblances. He reveals the consensus view of totalitarianism, in which it is invariably defined in terms of four things: the holocaust as the ultimate, diabolical evil; the Stalinist gulag as the alleged truth of the socialist revolutionary project; the recent wave of ethnic and religious fundamentalisms to be fought through multiculturalist tolerance; and the deconstructionist idea that the ultimate root of totalitarianism is the ontological closure of thought. Žižek concludes that the devil lies not so much in the detail but in what enables the very designation totalitarian: the liberal-democratic consensus itself.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism: Five Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion. To get started finding Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism: Five Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Totalitarianism has always had a precise strategic function: to guarantee the liberal-democratic hegemony by dismissing the Leftist critique of liberal democracy as the two-faced twin of Right-wing dictatorships. instead of providing yet another systematic exposition of the history of this notion, Žižek looks at totalitarianism in a way that Wittgenstein would approve of—finding it a cobweb of family resemblances. He reveals the consensus view of totalitarianism, in which it is invariably defined in terms of four things: the holocaust as the ultimate, diabolical evil; the Stalinist gulag as the alleged truth of the socialist revolutionary project; the recent wave of ethnic and religious fundamentalisms to be fought through multiculturalist tolerance; and the deconstructionist idea that the ultimate root of totalitarianism is the ontological closure of thought. Žižek concludes that the devil lies not so much in the detail but in what enables the very designation totalitarian: the liberal-democratic consensus itself.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism: Five Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion. To get started finding Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism: Five Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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